
Q&A #126 - Swimming and the specificity of upper body training adaptations (or how the turkeys can catch up with the fish)
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The Effects of Type 2 Fibers on Endurance Performance
The study investigated two different enzymes CS or citrate some synthase that we already discussed which is a marker for mitochondrial content and three hydroxyacyl coenzyme A. The activity of CS and HAD in the arms increased by 25% and 15% respectively after the training period. Capillarization in the leg muscles or capillary density was also similar pre-training and it did increase as well after the training intervention but not with the same magnitude as the increase in the arm muscles. So what can we conclude from these results? Well first it's very interesting to see a shift towards type 2 fibers rather than away from them despite the fact that actually relatively speaking this was quite a